-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Colombia 's president renewed calls for rebels to release a French journalist `` as soon as possible '' Monday as online statements purportedly from leftist guerrillas provided details about his capture .

`` I am very pleased to know that the French journalist is in good condition . Now that the -LRB- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -RRB- have acknowledged that they have him , I call for them to release him as soon as possible , '' President Juan Manuel Santos said .

He said Colombian officials will do whatever they can to guarantee journalist Romeo Langlois ' release by the rebel group , commonly known as the FARC .

`` The Colombian government is willing to provide all the facilities so the release occurs as quickly as possible , but if you really want to be viewed well by the world , release him now and simply tell us where he is and we will go get him , '' Santos said during a state visit to Singapore .

Langlois , who works for the France 24 television network and is a war reporter with more than 10 years experience in the country , was reporting alongside soldiers when the rebel group attacked on April 28 , the Colombian government has said .

The attack took place in the southern Caqueta province as soldiers worked to destroy cocaine labs .

The Colombian president 's comments Monday came as several apparent statements from the rebel group surfaced online .

One statement , dated May 3 and published Sunday on a blog connected with a news agency that often publishes official statements from the FARC , criticized Langlois for wearing a military uniform and claimed that any journalists embedded with Colombian troops have been painting a biased picture .

`` Romeo Langlois was wearing a military uniform of the Army in the middle of a fight . We think that the least that should be expected for the recuperation of his free mobility is the opening of a broad national and international debate about freedom of information , '' said the statement , which the New Colombian News Agency described as an official press release from the FARC .

The Colombian government and military officials have said that Langlois was not wearing a full military uniform , but was wearing a helmet and a protective vest .

In a YouTube video posted over the weekend , a man in military fatigues claiming to be a local FARC commander described Langlois as a `` prisoner of war '' and also said Langlois had been `` uniformed as a soldier and captured in plain combat . ''

In that statement , the purported FARC commander said Langlois was `` lightly wounded in one arm . He has been given the necessary medical attention and is out of danger . ''

Another comment posted on Twitter Sunday and purporting to be from the rebel group said Langlois would be released soon `` safe and sound . ''

CNN could not independently confirm that the statements came from the FARC rebels , whose official website is no longer accessible . The leftist guerrillas have been at war with the Colombian government since the 1960s , and are known for holding prisoners and hostages in remote jungle camps .

The statement in the YouTube video appeared to echo a statement that a woman claiming to belong to the FARC read to a group of local journalists last week .

Reporters Without Borders , an international press freedom group , cited the Twitter comment in a statement Monday , saying it was `` cautiously confident that he will be freed very soon . ''

`` It is absurd that the guerrillas consider him a combatant and in the same sense a prisoner of war . What a combatant does is armed , and Romeo Langlois never had a weapon in this circumstance , and for that very reason holding him is absurd , '' said Ignacio Gomez , director of the Bogota-based Free Press Foundation .

France 24 reported last month that its editors were working with authorities in Colombia and France to gather information on the journalist .

`` We know that it 's a difficult region , '' said Nahida Nakad , editorial director of Audiovisuel Exterieur de la France , of which France 24 is a part , the television network reported . `` Of course we are very worried , but we have every confidence in Romeo , who knows the territory very well and is an experienced journalist . We hope that he is safe and sound , and we are in constant contact with his family . ''

Kidnapping government forces and civilians has been a key strategy of the rebel group .

Dramatic rescues , escapes and hostage handovers have revealed harsh conditions in jungle camps , including stories of prisoners chained to trees , grueling marches between hideouts , torrential rain and blistering sun .

While severely weakened in recent years , the rebels have continued to carry out kidnappings and attack security forces .

Last month , the FARC released a group of 10 members of the military and police that it said were its last government hostages . In February , the FARC also said it would stop kidnapping civilians for money .

The rebels did not address the fate of its civilian captives then , nor did it renounce kidnapping for political purposes .

CNN 's Catherine E. Shoichet and Esprit Smith in Atlanta and journalist Jorge Asdrubal Garcia Romero in Bogota contributed to this report .

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Officials say Romeo Langlois has been missing since an April 28 rebel attack

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Colombia 's president calls on rebels to free the reporter `` and simply tell us where he is ''

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Several statements surface online discussing his capture , purportedly from the rebels

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Reporters Without Borders says it is `` cautiously confident that he will be freed very soon ''